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...s in his night visions that Seattle could not understand: a future with strange villages made of great stone lodges filled only with the white man. ... ...ing like a trophy from his raw Tbe Soul Bearer hide string. As he entered the village dozens of children ran up to greet their Chief, whom they lo... ...d offset a stern presence. Seattle, Chief and spiritual leader of the Suquamish Indians, was dressed regally with his full chieftain bonnet gently s... ...nd witness a day of reconciliation be tween the United States and the Suquamish Indians. A day that marks the beginning of a new relationship ... a ... ... but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on." "The sight of your villages pains the red man ... there is no qui et in the white man's... ...sity. He was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracted to fini... ...be tween Matloch, I.E., and Hawk, and I need to find it fast, or I'm up a shit creek without a paddle. Understand?" "Boss, they're hiding something... ...ercom button, "Alice, get me the Medical Examiner at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland." A moment later. "Dr. Henry Chadsworth is on the line," Al...
...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection that exists ...
...ze 22 Benin 23 Bermuda 25 Bhutan 26 Bolivia 27 Botswana 28 Brazil 30 British Indian Ocean Territory 31 British Virgin Islands 32 Brunei 33 Bulgaria 34... ... 28,750 km 2 ; land area: 27,400 km 2 Comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland Land boundaries: 716 km total Coastline: 362 km Maritime claim: ... ...rgentine(s); adjec- tive Argentine Ethnic divisions: 85% white, 15% mestizo, Indian, or other nonwhite groups Religion: 90% nominally Roman Catholic (... ...an(s); adjective Aruban Ethnic divisions: 85% mixed African; remainder Carib Indian, European, Latin, and Oriental Religion: 82% Roman Catholic, 8% Pr... ...ons, 64 districts, 495 thanas (rural townships consisting of 4,472 unions or village groupings) Legal system: civilian legal system sus- pended; tradi... ...ministers; 150-member indirectly elected National Assembly consisting of 110 village elders or heads of family, 10 monastic represen- tatives, and 30 ... ...nce 1974) Suffrage: each family has one vote Elections: popular elections on village level held every three years Political parties: no legal parties ... ...erways: 8,575 km consisting of Niger and Benue rivers and smaller rivers and creeks Pipelines: 2,042 km crude oil; 264 km natural gas; 3,000 km refine... ...aterways: section of Mono River and about 50 km of coastal lagoons and tidal creeks Ports: 1 major (Lome), 1 minor Civil air: 4 major transport aircra...
...s Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of Sappho is a m... ...f happiness, I saw Anaktoria, Libus, Gorgo, Nano, old friends, fishermen, villagers. Old women went about hawking oranges. Old men drank and talked.... ... from everything and everyone, myself as well. I went to a nearby fishing village. Necessity can be ingenious. The fishermen have managed to build g... ...hadows, warmth around me, an insect swim- ming toward a spot of sun. P A village girl brought me a bouquet of white roses, saying: “You must let me... ...nd places, all I have loved. Only in memory will I walk along the orchard creek and hunt for crayfish, think and stare as a boy thinks and stares. I... ...ld steal away and turtle hunt—that was our joy: tirelessly, we combed the creeks and river, staying long past staying time, scolded but not caring. ... ... smoked on the long watches. It settles the blood and calms the mind. The Indians...” “We know about the Indians,” Jonson said. “Just remember, we’r... ...he town of San José; I hear him telling about the treachery of the Tarawa Indians; his terrible thirst when his ship ran out of water at sea; he is ... ...essure of necessity. LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 523 My father lived in Knob Creek, Kentucky; from this place he removed to Spencer County, Indiana, in...
...(jrk city was elotsted editor- in-c,liii)f, and Juhn KHnnotli Byanl of Fly Creek, N. Y., hnsinesH manager for tlie coming year. GERALD MYGATT 1908 The... ...i- dents of the student associations of Now England, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware; in addition are invited the Asso- ointion general an... ...s, sink holes and glacial boulders found in this vicinity. The fain- ons ''Indian Ladder" was also visited. The party returned Sat- urday night. LastM... ...p Hall at 1.30 p. m. on Friday: President, John Kenneth Byard 1908, of Fly Creek, N. Y. ; vice-president, El- mer Philip Groben 1908, of Buf- falo, N.... ..." Salsollona "Sptlne Chlcktn" Solacllona 'Take Me Bacii to New York Town" "Indian Medley" "Tha Cttorus Lady" "Blue Danube" f "Cupid la Captain of the ... ... this clever bit of acting v.ent otT very smoothly. Pierce, in his yellow 'Indian" costume, was through- out well appreciated as the corn- median, and... ...crete and tile duct has become well-nigh universal it seems strange that a village of the size and ^beauty of Williams- town should not have relegated... ...erts Robb 1909, of Richmond Hill, N. Y., John Ken- neth Byard 1908, of Fly Creek, N. Y., and Hallett Johnson 1908, of South Orange, N. J., alternate, ... ... of the Continental Congress; the vital records of sev- eral Massachusetts villages, in- cluding Williamstown, up to 1850; and many state geological r...
...s the writers have left at home, breathes through its pages like wholesome village air; and though a cir culating library is a favourable school for ... ...day morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old England), are as favourable speci mens of rural America, a... ... next hour or so, we crossed by wooden bridges, each a mile in length, two creeks, called respectively Great and Little Gunpowder. The water in both w... ...eive, prompt to act, lions in energy, Crichtons in varied accomplishments, Indians in fire of eye and gesture, Americans in strong and generous impuls... ... more orderly, and more polite. Soon after nine o’clock we come to Potomac Creek, where we are to land; and then comes the oddest part American Notes ... ...lls, is a valley known as ‘Bloody Run, ’ from a terrible conflict with the Indians which once occurred there. It is a good place for such a struggle, ... ..., the first settler here (afterwards buried under it), was tied by hostile Indians, with his funeral pile about him, when he was saved by the timely a... ... destination, to ‘improve’ a newly discovered copper mine. He carries the village—that is to be—with him: a few frame cottages, and an appara tus fo... ...are few places where the Ohio sparkles more brightly than in the Big Grave Creek. All this I see as I sit in the little stern gallery men tioned just...
...heir native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or ... ...ist between the physical conformation, the language, and the habits of the Indians of North America, and those of the T ongous, Mantchous, Mongols, T ... ...“Conjecture sur l’Origine des Americains”; Adair, “History of the American Indians.” 31 Tocqueville neither white like the Europeans, nor yellow like... ...n. It is not undesignedly that I begin this subject with the Township. The village or township is the only association which is so perfectly natural t... ...ted by so many benefits. 111 Tocqueville Granting for an instant that the villages and counties of the United States would be more usefully governed ... ...knowledge; nay more, the citizen is unconcerned as to the condition of his village, the police of his street, the repairs of the church or of the par-... ...e woods. While I was in this place (which was in the neigh- borhood of the Creek territory), an Indian woman appeared, followed by a negress, and hold... ...r, and why they cannot become so now that they desire it – Instance of the Creeks and Cherokees -Policy of the particular States towards these Indians... ... Several of the Southern nations, and amongst others the Cherokees and the Creeks,* were surrounded by Europeans, who had landed on the shores of the ...
...ved there; but speaking with them, found they had a sloop lying in a small creek hard by , and came thither to make salt, and to catch some pearl-muss... ...ght the ship safe to an anchor, broadside with 27 Daniel Defoe the little creek where my old habitation was. As soon as I saw the place I called for ... ...a quarter of an hour after we perceived a smoke arise from the side of the creek; so I immediately ordered the boat out, taking Friday with me, and ha... ... being discovered), they were surprised with seeing about twenty canoes of Indians just coming on shore. They made the best of their way home in hurry... ...that is killed for a dainty. The first thing they did was to cause the old Indian, Friday’ s father, to go in, and see first if he knew any of them, a... ...tory was this: Early one morning there came on shore five or six canoes of Indians or savages, call them which you please, and there is no room to dou... ...but this figure of a gentleman rode away before us; and as we stopped at a village about an hour to refresh us, when we came by the country seat of th... ...in the dominions of the Emperor of China, but lay for the most part in the villages, some of which were fortified, because of the incursions of the T ... ... about 194 The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe two miles out of the village, where it seems they kept the camels and horses feeding under a gua...
... stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking windows of skyscrapers in... ...grateful poor. The supplementary reading in sociology led her to a book on village-improvement—tree-planting, town pag- eants, girls’ clubs. It had pi... ...as as a part of all this commonplaceness that she regarded the treatise on village-improvement. But she suddenly stopped fidgeting. She strode into th... ...als and build libraries to contain the Elsie books. I’ll make ‘em put in a village green, and darling cottages, and a quaint Main Street!” Thus she tr... ...d by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties with the Indians, and the cattle-rustlers once came galloping before hell-for-leathe... ...y gossiped sometimes squatted on their heels on the sidewalk, like resting Indians, and reflectively spat over the curb. She found beauty in the child... ...ide her, and small waves sputtered on the meadowy shore. She leaped a tiny creek bowered in pussy- willow buds. She was nearing a frivolous grove of b... ...retch unchanging to the North Pole: low hill, brush-scraggly bottom, reedy creek, muskrat mound, fields with frozen brown clods thrust up through the ... ...the hills are covered with brush, the lakes shut off by railroads, and the creeks lined with dumping-grounds; of depressing sobriety of color; rectang...
...is liberty may have been cloven down, * * * * no matter what complexion an Indian or an African sun may have burned upon him,” not only may “stand for... ...at demand, not only in T uckahoe, but at Denton and Hillsboro, neighboring villages. She was not only good at making the nets, but was also somewhat f... ...oo hungry to sleep. While I sat in the corner, I caught sight of an ear of Indian corn on an upper shelf of the kitchen. I watched my chance, and got ... ...ar away from all the great thorough- fares, and is proximate to no town or village. There is neither school-house, nor town-house in its neighborhood.... ... river from the Wye a mile or more from my old master’s house. There was a creek to swim in, at the bottom of an open flat space, of twenty acres or m... ...t was just a place to my boyish taste. There were fish to be caught in the creek, if one only had a hook and line; and crabs, clams and oysters were t... ...head, speak- ing to me in soft, caressing tones and calling me his “little Indian boy,” he would have deemed him a kind old man, and really, almost fa... ...Denby but few stripes; the latter broke away from him and plunged into the creek, and, standing there to the depth of his neck in water, he refused to... ...t large town I had ever seen; and though it was inferior to many a factory village in New En- gland, my feelings, on seeing it, were excited to a pitc...
... the Capitol, Pennsylvania Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, Delaware Avenue, and Maryland Av- enue converge. They come from one extremity of the city to the... ...y hair, but often covered with feathers, and is intended to typify the red Indian. The red Indian is generally supposed to be receiving comfort; but i... ...interrupted whether he would consent to be so treated. “The gentleman from Indiana has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentlema... ... has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentleman from Indiana a question.” “The gentleman from Indiana gives permission.” “The ge... ...h ground, and the women were sitting, guarding their little property. That village, amid the waters, was a sad sight to see; but I heard no complaints... ...ce had been the opponent of poor General Lyons, who was killed at Wilson’s Creek, near Springfield, and of General Fremont, who during his hundred day... ...there is no delivery at all except in the large cities. In small towns, in villages, even in the suburbs of the largest cities, no such accommodation ... ... countries. They are to be found in all towns, and I may almost say in all villages. In England and on the Continent we find them on the recognized ro... ...at Eleutheria, but hearing of an opening for a Baptist preacher at Big Mud Creek moves himself off with his wife and three children at a week’s notice...
...he two friends sat looking and listening as they drank their wine, was the village of the Catalans. Long ago this mysterious colony quitted Spain, and... ... fifteen small vessels which had brought these gypsies of the sea, a small village sprang up. This village, constructed in a singular and picturesque ... ...t had never seemed so vast. Bathed in tears she wandered about the Catalan village. Sometimes she stood mute and motionless as a statue, looking towar... ...may amount to nearly two mil... will find on raising the twen- tieth ro... creek to the east in a right line. Two open... in these caves; the treasure... ...ns, and which he will find on raising the twentieth ro...ck from the small creek to the east in a right line. Two open...ings have been made in these ... ...ced the marks along the rocks, and he had noticed that they led to a small creek. which was hidden like the bath of some ancient nymph. This creek was... ...Turks, the augers of the Persians, the stake and the brand of the Iroquois Indians, are inadequate tortures, and which are unpun- ished by society? An... ...re a philanthropist. Ah, you call yourself Oriental, a Levantine, Maltese, Indian, Chinese; your family name is Monte Cristo; Sinbad the Sailor is you... ... — a small octagonal-shaped room, hung with pink satin, covered with white Indian muslin. The chairs were of ancient workmanship and materials; over t...
...irations… Only when the family had “moved” into the malarious backwoods of Indiana, the mother had died, and a stepmother, a woman of thrift and energ... ...ashington. To the town constable’s he went to read the Revised Statutes of Indiana. Every printed page that fell into his hands he would greedily devo... ....” Then he lived several years at New Salem, in Illinois, a small mushroom village, with a mill, some “stores” and whiskey shops, that rose quickly, a... ... field, and his most noteworthy deed of valor consisted, not in killing an Indian, but in protecting against his own men, at the peril of his own life... ...ed the Potomac and in- 43 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol One vaded Maryland, Lincoln vowed in his heart that, if the Union army were now bless... ...ve how benighted and isolated was the condition of the community at Pigeon Creek in Indiana, of which the family of Lincoln’s father formed a part, or... ...me, no friend to consult. More farm work as a hired hand, a clerkship in a village store, the running of a mill, another trip to New Orleans on a flat... ...lliam had killed him. He said he guessed the body could be found in Spring Creek, between the Beardstown road and Hickox’s mill. Away the people swept... ...w the water out of the pond, and then went up and down and down and up the creek, fishing and raking, and raking and ducking and diving for two days, ...
...I. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N TH... ... for in the summer myriads of black flies, mosquitoes, and midges, or, as the Indians call them, “no see ems,” make travelling in the woods almost imp... ...st impossible; but now their reign was nearly over. Ktaadn, whose name is an Indian word signifying highest land, was first as cended by white men in ... ...panion carried his gun. Within a dozen miles of Bangor we passed through the villages of Stillwater and Oldtown, built at the falls of the Penobscot; ... ...litary road, at Lincoln, forty five miles from Bangor, where there is quite a village for this country, — the principal one above Oldtown. Learning tha... ...with impunity or for slight reasons. There were even the germs of one or two villages just beginning to expand. The beauty of the road itself was rema... ...autiful. Moose tracks were not so fresh along this stream, except in a small creek about a mile up it, where a large log had lodged in the spring, mar... ...asked about Aboljacknagesic, which he did not recognize;) Mattahumkeag, Sand Creek Pond;Piscataquis, Branch of a River. I asked our hosts what Musketa... ...re is grass. (Rale.) Musk´ eeticook, Dead water. (Polis.) Mattahumkeag, Sand creek Pond. Piscataquis, branch of a river. g Nicholai. Shecorways, sheld...
... and the boatman?s life. I was fortunate also in the season of the year, for in the summer myriads of black flies, mosquitoes, and midges, or, as the Indians call them, ?nosee- ems,? make travelling in the woods almost impossible; but now their reign was nearly over....
...AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS., 199...
...- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfather, also named Noah, was t... ...of five or six until seventeen, I attended the subscription schools of the village, except during the winters of 1836-7 and 1838- 9. The former period... ...sed. We had, among other lands, fifty acres of forest within a mile of the village. In the fall of the year chop- pers were employed to cut enough woo... ...ents; no objection to rational enjoy- ments, such as fishing, going to the creek a mile away to swim in summer, taking a horse and visiting my grandpa... ...e told the story, there was a Mr. Ralston living within a few miles of the village, who owned a colt which I very much wanted. My father had offered t... ...un- try, taking no baggage with me, of course. There is an insig- nificant creek—the Gravois—between Jefferson Barracks and the place to which I was g... ...dge over it from its source to its mouth. There is not water enough in the creek at ordinary stages to run a coffee mill, and at low water there is no... ... least one of these hamlets lived underground for pro- tection against the Indians. The country abounded in game, such as deer and antelope, with abun... ...own called San Patricio, but the inhabitants had all been massacred by the Indians, or driven away. San Antonio was about equally divided in populatio...
...ins and the Alleghanies; and that they were inhabited either by Mor- mons, Indians, or simply by black bears. That there was a 43 Trollope district i... ...ke with an island in it; and the place which has taken the name is a small village, about ten years old, standing in the midst of un- cut forests, and... ... road lies through the suburb of St. Roch, and the long, straggling French village of Beauport. These are in themselves very interesting, as showing t... ... Quebec, are, I think, becoming less and less French every day; but in the villages and on the small farms the French still remain, keeping up their l... ...ends the river, which by its breadth forms itself into lakes, one is shown Indian villages clustering down upon the bank. Some years ago these Indians... ...onsiderable acuteness. They might not, per- haps, hit the truth, and these Indians are much in that predicament. It is said that very few pure-blooded... ...beheld. The town of Grand Haven itself is placed on the opposite side of a creek, and was to be reached by a ferry. On our side, to which the railway ... ...ic in its loveli- ness than Trenton Falls. The name of the river is Canada Creek West; but as that is hardly euphonious, the course of the water which... ... in the vicinity of a broken bone. Beyond the Susquehanna we passed over a creek of Chesapeake Bay on a long bridge. The whole scen- ery here is very ...
... ancestors. From these notes I learned that the family had lived in the same village, Ecton, in Northamptonshire, for three hundred years, and how muc... ...lic spirited undertakings for the county or town of Northampton, and his own village, of which many instances were related of him; and much taken noti... ...uakers, and other sectaries that had been under persecution, as cribing the Indian wars, and other distresses that had be fallen the country, to tha... ...r; the others knew not where we were; so we put toward the shore, got into a creek, landed near an old fence, with the rails of which we made a fire, ... ...emained till daylight. Then one of the company knew the place to be Cooper’s Creek, a little above Philadel phia, which we saw as soon as we got out ... ...ek, a little above Philadel phia, which we saw as soon as we got out of the creek, and arriv’d there about eight or nine o’clock on the Sunday morn ... ...n after had a letter from him, acquainting me that he was settled in a small village (in Berkshire, I think it was, where he taught reading and writin... ...ppointed their clerk. The year following, a treaty being to be held with the Indians at Carlisle, the governor sent a message to the House, proposing ... ...orris) and myself; and, being commission’d, we went to Carlisle, and met the Indians accordingly. As those people are extreamly apt to get drunk, and,...
...f the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from... ... the flat boat, the maize leaf, the claim, the rude fence, and the backwoods village, See, on the one side the Western Sea and on the other the Easter... ...roof’d garret and harks to the musical rain, The Wolverine sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron, The squaw wrapt in her yellow hemm’d clo... ...taracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman? I hear the workman ... ...d along the old lanes once more. O to have been brought up on bays, lagoons, creeks, or along the coast, To continue and be employ’d there all my life... ... in Manhattan, Or with large steps crossing the prairies out of Illinois and Indiana, Rapidly crossing the West with springy gait and descending the A... ... where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder, Cool and sweeten Ohio’s villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind, Where apples ripe i... ...les, teams, the heavy plank’d wharves, the huge crossing at the ferries, The village on the highland seen from afar at sunset, the river between, Shad... ... India! O secret of the earth and sky! Of you O waters of the sea! O winding creeks and rivers! Of you O woods and fields! of you strong mountains of ...